Metro. Enforcer

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"My intention was that Ep3 would simply tie up the plot threads that were particular to HL2," Laidlaw said in June. "But it would still end like HL1 and HL2, with Gordon in an indeterminate space, on hold, waiting for the next game to begin. So one cliffhanger after another."

Ivan the Space Biker's Personal Aid

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This ending sucks for gordon, it marks the end of the Half Life 2 Saga/Chapter, but continues his life and adventures without a true end. I can totally see why developers would be down on creating the game, after 20 years, you want an end and this isn't it. It's like trying to write T3 after T2 and for kickers you need to make it so T4, T5... will be made

What have I learned from this?

That Gordon was never in control, for wether he did something or not, the end result was that it didn't matter ...

I have a box with a headcrab plushy put away a long time ago in some attic in some country not too far away, I shall wear it this weekend...

Colonel Benefactor

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Thank you for bringing us along on your adventures, Dr. Freeman. Almost 20 years ago it started, you shared your adventures with me, I shared them with my friends. I even made new friends (most of them crazy as fuck though), and we joyously talked for hours, days, years, even more years... about you. As time passed by, we grew older and we somehow got seperated from you. The time it took to realize it was better this way seemed infinite, but we managed to set our minds at peace. We are still here, and you are somewhere in space and time, held captive by forces unknown to mankind. We will never forget you, as you'll be remembered by the countless moments of happiness you've brought us all. Farewell Dr. Freeman, may the crowbar be forever in your hands.

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How does everyone feel about Alyx straight murdering Mossman when deciding what to do with the Borealis? It struck me as pretty unusually cold for her character.

Also bummer we didn't get to see DOG one last time.

i kind of liked it. one thing that i felt this short didn't convey (not that it really could have without being a more fleshed out thing - also probably why there's no talk of d0g or barney) was a sense of revenge in alyx. there was some half-life 3 comic series that just got started a couple months ago and that begins with a funeral same as here. i always felt that was weird because she's such a passionate person; part of me felt that she would forego the service and just run off to fuck up as many advisors as possible. the one place where i felt this was her killing mossman, letting out all that pent up rage on her by honoring her father's last wishes.

what bothers me though is how is the borealis supposed to do anything by crashing into this "staging area"? it has no payload unless the bootstrap is powered by a nuclear reactor or some equivalent that could work as an ordinance analogue.